[Owncloud] ownCloud/openSUSE collaboration for GSoC 2013
Raghu Nayyar
raghu.nayyar.007 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 16 18:58:23 UTC 2013
Hi Alessandro,
I am trying to understand your point here. Though, I have made more
'objectified' approach to the proposal [1] making it easier to judge for
the developers and a specific timeline making things much simpler to
coordinate [2].
Honestly, we never said '*we will be doing a lot of design improvements*'.
I know its a vague statement to make, but yes, we are supposed to make
Design Improvements *specifically* to Files, User Management and
Application Management. I mean, we have tried being specific, I don't know
where we missed on this.
Please note that the timeline I wrote is fresh, so it may need some
modifications. But yeah, I have made it clear about making complete PRs
related to above mentioned areas and when I will be making them. This may
help you judge things more effectively.
Also, design evolves with time which made me start on this a bit early. I
have kept time towards the end so that more enhancements can be made when
we actually are done with the front-end and can see its implementation
working.
I hope I am making my side clear.
[1] https://gist.github.com/raghunayyar/9b0dc508c365be86facc
[2] https://gist.github.com/raghunayyar/3af4d4b89c7be11fc705
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>wrote:
> @Raghu and Jan: Notice that in a GSoC project it needs to be clear
> from the beginning what the goals are.
>
> Let me be more clear: you can't say: we will do a lot of design
> improvements and make owncloud looks nicer. It needs to be something
> coherent and whose success can be judged objectively at the end of the
> summer.
>
> I am not implying anything, I am just giving advice on how to make the
> proposal looks better.
>
> Feel free to ask if it's not clear what my point is.
>
> Alessandro
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt
> <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:
> > Whoops, sorry for the late reply! :) We talk so much on IRC that I forget
> > the other channels.
> >
> > So yeah, to everyone else: Raghu has contributed tons to ownCloud design
> in
> > the past and it’s really cool to work with him. I think the proposal is
> > great especially because it will improve the general quality of the
> ownCloud
> > core.
> >
> > Please let us know if you have any feedback! :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/3/22 Raghu Nayyar <me at iraghu.com>
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I discussed my idea with Jan about taking forward the ownCloud core
> design
> >> as a part of my summer of code project. I created a gist to tackle the
> >> design : here is the link :
> >> https://gist.github.com/raghunayyar/9b0dc508c365be86facc
> >>
> >> He is ready to mentor it along with Bernhard Posselt (Raydiation) as
> >> alternative mentor. The idea is up on the openSUSE GSoC page :
> >>
> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#Forwarding_the_ownCloud_core_design
> >>
> >> Since the work involves working on 3 aspects, namely, Files, Application
> >> and User Management. I have split the work into Basic and Advanced
> >> enhancements so that it becomes easy to manage for both me and the
> mentor /
> >> co-mentor.
> >>
> >> I have tried to mention all links in the "Design Forward" tag in my
> >> proposal, any changes / additions and off course feedbacks are most
> welcome.
> >>
> >> Some of the work has already been started in the OC6_Fileactions branch
> in
> >> the core.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Qingping Hou <dave2008713 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for all the help and input from everyone so far :)
> >>>
> >>> I have updated the plan a bit according to the new feedback.
> >>>
> >>> * for cache, I think it will be a great extension for the app. I will
> >>> see if I can find some time to work on this when the core part is
> >>> stable enough.
> >>> * for collaborate with marble, yes, it's already included in the plan.
> >>> Will discuss with them on stuff like how the communication API should
> >>> be designed.
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM, eMerzh <merzhin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> >
> >>> > Yes if someone wan't to help the mentoring ... even google says it's
> >>> > recommended to be 2 :)
> >>> >
> >>> > Alessandro, the description i gave you that on irc :
> >>> > https://gist.github.com/eMerzh/c33af31ce3bed0c9b044
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jörn Friedrich Dreyer
> >>> > <jfd at owncloud.com> wrote:
> >>> >> On 20.03.2013 12:55, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Right Alessandro, that’s the project I meant. Marble is awesome!
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Jörn, do you have the prototype up on Github?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> nope, sorry. It was not even a real owncloud app. I had just tried
> to
> >>> >> make
> >>> >> the openstreetmap examples work on my own server.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> so long
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Jörn
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Alessandro Cosentino
> >>> >> <cosenal at gmail.com>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Let's not forget this other project that the Marble people
> proposed:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Project:_Marble_meets_owncloud
> >>> >>> We should collaborate with them as well
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Jörn Friedrich Dreyer
> >>> >>> <jfd at owncloud.com> wrote:
> >>> >>> > Just to pour in some ideas: I hacked on a prototype that acts as
> a
> >>> >>> > proxy
> >>> >>> > to
> >>> >>> > openstreetmap but never finished it. A good starting point was
> >>> >>> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ProxySimplePHP which fetches
> >>> >>> > necessary
> >>> >>> > tiles on the fly with curl and provides minimal OpenLayers code
> -
> >>> >>> > the
> >>> >>> > js
> >>> >>> > part to render the map. The working example can be found at
> >>> >>> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers. For the search
> box
> >>> >>> > you
> >>> >>> > can
> >>> >>> > use Nominatim as a web service: see the Examples on
> >>> >>> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > my 2 cent
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Jörn
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > On 20.03.2013 10:59, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > I’m happy to give design & interface guidance, so yes. :) Would
> be
> >>> >>> > really
> >>> >>> > cool if there will be a map app, because KDE’s Marble does some
> >>> >>> > ownCloud
> >>> >>> > integration (which I think is independent of our participation in
> >>> >>> > GSoC
> >>> >>> > because Marble is a KDE desktop software). It would be really
> cool
> >>> >>> > to be
> >>> >>> > able to sync routes and favorite places with that.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Also, I guess I’m not the only one who would really like to have
> >>> >>> > something
> >>> >>> > for travel planning, have friends’ locations (from ownCloud
> >>> >>> > Contacts)
> >>> >>> > mapped
> >>> >>> > out and so on. Essentially what you can do with the »My Maps«
> thing
> >>> >>> > of
> >>> >>> > Google Maps.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Wohoo!
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Alessandro Cosentino
> >>> >>> > <cosenal at gmail.com>
> >>> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> wow, great!
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> Jakob or Jan, do you want to backup/co-mentor?
> >>> >>> >> Officially in GSOC there is going to be only one mentor, but
> it's
> >>> >>> >> always good to have someone who can interacts with the student
> >>> >>> >> while
> >>> >>> >> the official mentor is away.
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> Brice and Qingping, can you give me a description of the project
> >>> >>> >> in
> >>> >>> >> the format of the openSUSE wiki?
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> Thanks!
> >>> >>> >>
> >>> >>> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Frank Karlitschek
> >>> >>> >> <frank at owncloud.org>
> >>> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>> >> > Great attack plan :-)
> >>> >>> >> >
> >>> >>> >> >
> >>> >>> >> > On 19.03.2013, at 22:15, Qingping Hou <dave2008713 at gmail.com>
> >>> >>> >> > wrote:
> >>> >>> >> >
> >>> >>> >> >> Hi all,
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> I had a discussion with eMerzh on the map app project and
> come
> >>> >>> >> >> up
> >>> >>> >> >> with
> >>> >>> >> >> following attack plan:
> >>> >>> >> >> https://github.com/houqp/apps/blob/map_app/map/PLAN.md
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> Feel free to comment on Github or reply your suggestions
> here.
> >>> >>> >> >> eMerzh
> >>> >>> >> >> will
> >>> >>> >> >> also update the project description on SUSE wiki later.
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> Also we need an extra back/co-mentor for this project :)
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> Cheers,
> >>> >>> >> >> houqp
> >>> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>> >> >> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Alessandro Cosentino
> >>> >>> >> >> <cosenal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >>> >> >>> Hi,
> >>> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >>> >> >>> I am happy to announce a collaboration between openSUSE and
> >>> >>> >> >>> ownCloud
> >>> >>> >> >>> to participate in GSoC 2013.
> >>> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >>> >> >>> As most of you know, in the last year we have participated
> >>> >>> >> >>> under
> >>> >>> >> >>> KDE.
> >>> >>> >> >>> This is no longer possible, so this year our projects will
> be
> >>> >>> >> >>> hosted
> >>> >>> >> >>> under openSUSE.
> >>> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >>> >> >>> I created a section for ownCloud projects on the openSUSE
> >>> >>> >> >>> wiki:
> >>> >>> >> >>> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#ownCloud
> >>> >>> >> >>> If you are interested in mentoring a project (and you
> >>> >>> >> >>> should!),
> >>> >>> >> >>> please
> >>> >>> >> >>> list it there.
> >>> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >>> >> >>> Some students have already shown interest for some projects,
> >>> >>> >> >>> namely:
> >>> >>> >> >>> - an app for Prey
> >>> >>> >> >>> - integration with Shiva
> >>> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >>> >> >>> See related emails in the mailing list.
> >>> >>> >> >>> It would be awesome if you could stand up and volunteer to
> >>> >>> >> >>> mentor
> >>> >>> >> >>> these projects.
> >>> >>> >> >>>
> >>> >>> >> >>> Alessandro
> >>> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> >> >>> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> >> >>> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> >> >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> >> >> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> >> >> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> >> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>> >> >
> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> >> > Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> >> > Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> >> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> >> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> >> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> > Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> > Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > --
> >>> >>> > Jörn Friedrich Dreyer (jfd at owncloud.com)
> >>> >>> > Software Developer
> >>> >>> > ownCloud GmbH
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way!
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff
> >>> >>> > Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg)
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> > Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> > Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >>> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> _______________________________________________
> >>> >> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> --
> >>> >> Jörn Friedrich Dreyer (jfd at owncloud.com)
> >>> >> Software Developer
> >>> >> ownCloud GmbH
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way!
> >>> >>
> >>> >> ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff
> >>> >> Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg)
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> _______________________________________________
> >>> >> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> >> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> >>
> >>> > _______________________________________________
> >>> > Owncloud mailing list
> >>> > Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Owncloud mailing list
> >>> Owncloud at kde.org
> >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Raghu
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Owncloud mailing list
> >> Owncloud at kde.org
> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Owncloud mailing list
> > Owncloud at kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
> >
> _______________________________________________
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> Owncloud at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
>
--
Sincerely,
Raghu Nayyar
Undergraduate,
B.E. Mechanical Engineering
BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus
E-mail: me at iraghu.com
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